Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education

Carolina Gómez-González¹  Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela¹  Andrés Rojas-Murphy Tagle²  Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister³ 

[1] Facultad de Educación y Humanidades, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile;Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile;

关键词: Learning analytics;    Higher education;    Challenges;    Learning;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41239-021-00258-x

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In a context where learning mediated by technology has gained prominence in higher education, learning analytics has become a powerful tool to collect and analyse data with the aim of improving students’ learning. However, learning analytics is part of a young community and its developments deserve further exploration. Some critical stances claim that learning analytics tends to underplay the complexity of teaching-learning processes. By means of both a bibliometric and a content analysis, this paper examines the publication patterns on learning analytics in higher education and their main challenges. 385 papers that were published in WoScc and SciELO indexes between 2013 and 2019 were identified and analysed. Learning analytics is a vibrant and fast-developing community. However, it continues to face multiple and complex challenges, especially regarding students’ learning and their implications. The paper concludes by distinguishing between a practice-based and management-oriented community of learning analytics and an academic-oriented community. Within both communities, though, it seems that the focus is more on analytics than on learning.

【 授权许可】

CC BY